Seve Ballesteros and Nick Faldo: Friends or Rivals? | Inside The Game | Golfing World
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- Опубликовано: 13 апр 2017
- Sir Nick Faldo shares some of his favourite memories with us of his great friend and rival Seve Ballesteros, who would have turned 60 last Sunday.
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I'm American, but these were my two favorite players. I lost it when Seve hugged Nick, in tears, at the 1995 Ryder Cup. It was huge for Nick to be appreciated by a peer of Seve's stature. Seve's style and passion inspired me to take up the game, and Faldo gave me hope that the swing could actually be learned. Two very different people and players, but both were great champions.
As a young kid in India I watched the same moment and fell in love with Ryder Cup and the European team. I am raising two young Americans now so it'll be interesting when they grow up ...
Very much agree
1988 PGA Chp, Oklahoma. I was 11 years old standing by the practice green. I said, "Mr. Ballesteros, you are #1 and the best"
He said " You are correct young man, this is true".
lol I love that.
had nine holes of a lifetime with Seve back in 1983 at Melbourne, Australia.
Nick Faldo....a GREAT British legend.....nuff said.
Was in St Andrews last month and visited the golf museum just to see the collection of Seve photos on display. Amazing golfer.
There are very few legends of sport. Seve is the king of legends. His memory will never fade from our euro hearts
I just can't even watch footage of Seve and not tear up. His unbridled passion for the game was simply infectious. And always of huge fan of the the great Sir Nick. This is just a delightful video.
Probably the most naturally gifted golfer that I’ve ever had the pleasure to watch.
The most imaginative player ever to swing a club. Lost too soon but at least we have lots of video proof of his greatness
Faldo:"You knew he was still on the hole even you couldn't see it".Thanks Nick that was touch.
my personal opinion seve was THE G.o.A.T he transformed golf in the minds of so many
2 of the greatest golfers ever to hit a golf ball..both my inspection into golf
I grew up in the 80's watching Seve play some ridiculous shots from places no one else would ever hit a ball and yet he always came up trumps with his genius and bravery, and Faldo loved him, you could tell, 2 gladiators with completely different styles and personalities but both greats, and both inspired me to take up golf and I owe them both for what they gave to the game, legends.
"He was still in hole but you couldn't see him." Lol. Always remember standing watching players warming up on the range, there was the usual buzz from the crowd watching these guys hit golf balls like rapier missiles with their caddies and coaches watching on, and suddenly everything went silent and you realise it's because Sevie had just entered the the range with his film star looks. There was some big names hitting balls at that time on the range but Sevie was a whole different level when he walked in to warm up. Never will I forget that moment. The Golfing public just loved him.
We still love and admire him brother
He was the rock star of golf.
2 of the best ever. Who wants a piece of that pair in the ryder cup? Didn't think so.
What a wonderful man you were Seve and what a great ambassador of our lovely 🇪🇸
Spain should be incredibly proud of such a legend.
Definitely friends. Seve won 4 of his 5 majors before Nick won the first one of his. Nick definitely looked up to him at least a lil bit in the late 70’s and early 80’s. They were both born in 1957 Seve first.
That putt by Faldo in the 95 Ryder Cup was as great a pressure shot as has ever been played.
Nice side of Faldo that many of us are not familiar with. And Seve, boy was he fun to watch.
That pitch between two bunkers was just absurdly good. Lol, to even have the guts to attempt that, in what looked like was the British Open, is just unreal. That ball could have gone anywhere, and he stiffed it.
I dont think theres another golfer that even attempts that.
They don't them like that any more. What a champ Seve!
Seve singlehandedly made the Ryder Cup what it is today...
You can't be serious. What are you smoking?
I like Faldo very much now. I am a Soaniard and he was Seve's great rival and back in the day I almost hated him. As many great golf champions, think of Hogan, he was not popular, in fact many say he was even displeasing. But to become as victorious did probably require that sort of character and that is why Seve came to be fond of him.
Ballesteros is the reason I decided to pick up a golf club. True passion for the game.
Jare Roken, yes I also started playing golf because of Ballesteros, I remember the 1985 Ryder Cup and his victory on the Open in 1988 very vividly. Also the 1986 Masters he felt he should have won. It was the beginning of his downfall, but in defeat he was still very inspiring because he had class.
I was lucky enough when i fist started to play to go to the open in Lythym Seve won, he was one of the few players we saw on the day birdie the 18th and i just thought maybe its his year. What a player he was and I remember watching programmes on him and he talked about learning to play only with a 5 iron, same as the great Lee Trevino, that is what helped him develop such a feel for shaping shots.
Can we please never have a dislike for this video???
I miss Seve, Faldo, Watson, Erwin, Nicklaus! Golf was awesome to watch then! Not so much today!
Very robotic today, no personality. If Tiger wasn’t playing anymore I wouldn’t watch other than the masters and the Open.
Oh Seve , it was either in the hole or the car park . He just gave the ball every chance . So different to the percentage players . I went a long way to see him play & practice .
He taught me that it is better to play sport
with a spirit of adventure .
Seve was Always and still is the coolest and most suave dude on the course.
He's there in spirit. Haunting the fairways.
I'm amazed to hear Seve ever went to the range. I just thought he rocked up, missed every fairway in regulation and then shot 6 under.
amazing comment haha
@@marcyboy06 excellent 🤯
😂😂😂😂 true
Two golfing gods, i saw both play many times at the open 🥂
Seve....the could never ever be another !!!!
A true gent of the game . Sadly missed but not forgotten. 🏌️♂️⛳
Great player. Looked like he enjoyed every shot. Miss him.
Two legends of golf but totally different.
Seve was a wonderful player .
Faldo has and always will be the eminent Seve-apologist. For this, he will later and always regret.
Seve was and always will be the most exciting golfer to watch the game could really do with him now
Well said. Golf's loss!
I saw SEVE at trophée Lancome in France when he was not that great player we knew before.... i can tell you that was incredible, the way he played in chip and recovering was just fantastic...
BONJOUR from PARIS
These were 2 of the best players when I was 1st learning about golf. The sport lends itself to a singularity as an individual sport. However, respect is an unwritten rule of the game... or it should be. But golf is also entertainment to be enjoyed and Seve and Nick were fun to watch whether we like them or not (i.e. I was pulling for Norman at the '96 Masters.) I'm glad Faldo has showed his more personal character since he's become a commentator.
He was a golfing genius, a maestro with a golf club, bless him
Seve was in a different class, as a golfer and as a man.
Nice video, Seve was simply the best, Nick Faldo was the first mechanical player and also a great competitor. Last day at the Open in 88 was a memorable moment .
Seve was art and passion our inspirattion.
My two favourite golfers.
What wonderful golfers it was lovely watching them .
Truly beautiful
I saw Seve at Medinah in 1990,....I thought He was a Great Guy and a Great Golfer!
HOW DO YOU DEFINE GREATNESS...HOW DO YOU DEFINE THE GREATEST...IS IT BY HOW MANY GSs YOU WIN🏆...IS IT BY HOW MUCH YOUR LOVED BY THE WHOLE WORLD...IS IT BY THE WAY YOU PLAYED YOUR SPORT...I TRULY BELIEVE SEVE IS A PRIME EXAMPLE...LOVE AND MISS HIM STILL...SEVE FOREVER ❤❤❤
There hasn’t been a true golfing rivalry for years. Its a shame that nobody was really able to challenge Tiger during his best years. In Jack’s era he had Watson, Trevino, Miller, Player and Palmer just to name a few.
He's still in the hole, even though you can't see him. 😂 Great line Sir Nick
To be honest, in match play, that mindset was huge. Thanks for posting🏌️♀️
Seve' was special, he was the Matador.....!
Seve is the greatest.
Seve was magical. If anything, in terms of wins he could have/should have won more if he were able to manage his game a bit better. But then he would not have been Seve. I find it a great tragedy that he passed on so young and early.
FANTASTIC. who we got now?? Speith? Day? Johnson? ain't the same is it????
John Clark if like me this was your era then no it's not the same. But then the older generation probably thought that when they looked back on Hogan etc. My son who is 14 and plays off 2 worships Spieth . I show him these guys and it's like ok dad that's the olden days move on. I was always a fan of Seve. Anyhow, nice video.
i really think John Rahm can be special.
It's a shame because they're all around the same age and they can't even smile or look at each other.
Personalities may not be dynamic...but the talent in golf today at the top is deeper than at any point in history in my mind. Most eras had 2-3 guys clearly separate from the rest...today has a pack of 10-12 golfers who it’s difficult to determine a favorite week to week
@@kevinmac2298 I think you're right. Back then everybodies swing was home made. Now you can buy a swing. It's pretty much cookie cutter.
2 Legends 👍
Its called raw talent. Not honed mechanics. But theyre both my favourite two players
Alongside Harry Vardon (from of course a much earlier era) they are the greatest European golfers of all time.
Imagine how even better he could have been if he played from fairways. He did not play golf courses, he fought them!
I always said back in his Heyday Nick Faldo would have made a pretty good James Bond.
He looks like pierce brosnan
Would make a great han solo always thought he had a touch of Harrison about him lol
I remember seve was asked to explain Faldo in one word he said Egosistical
The natural 🇦🇺
Music anyone?
Eye brow (singular)
💔🌾💔🌾💔🌾
anyone who thumbs downs this is no golf fan gtfo
There must be 18 non golfers at the moment. Or perhaps not fans of two of the greatest golfers to ever to grace the fairway. Seve was a truly gifted shot maker as was Sir Nick.
And after all that tiger turns up
Why didn't he give the ball to the kid
Because he promised to give the winning ball to a 70 yr old Spanish man who asked for it before the Open
Not many people are “Natural” golf player’s at the top level.. by that i mean not pick up a club for 12 months and then first round shoot a 67. Seve could do that.. who else could? maybe Trevino at the very height of his career.. but really Seve was as close to a one off as there has ever been.
I have a golf instruction book by Seve, titled "Natural Golf." Natural to him maybe. Supernatural to us mere mortals.
Tiger Woods at his best had Seve’s imagination, combined with Jack Nicklaus’s physical and mental strength, and Nick Faldo’s obsessive fascination with the golf swing.
did he give that kid the ball? looks like he put it in his back pocket lol
I'm thinking that ball had special significance to him
He's still in the hole, though u can't see him! 😂
FIRST, yet again
When all is said and done, no one will ever be paying the respect to Faldo that Seve won. He was never in the same league.
You're talking to yourself...
Don't know much about golf do you.
Paul Edmondson I have more knowledge about the complex relationship between the inner being and the kinetics of the human musculature, with particular reference to golf, than you will learn in a thousand of your petulant lifetimes.
I literally laughed out loud at this.
It's true Seve has more charisma... more than almost any other golfer but Sit Nick is a giant of the game...to say the 2 arent in the same league is like one if your drives...way off!
Glad to see America win the last Ryder cup, as the Euro's can not play the Power Game on American soil with Players 5 foot 8 and 170 LBS !
Seve was a crybaby
Dan Rode strange man, or boy, you are
@@mikejones-go8vz Explain why?
Dan Rode why call him a cry baby, because he shows some emotion?
There’s nothing worse than sponging, Seve was the man, no question,but trying to be his best mate, making you think he was just as good,doesn’t do Nick much good I think.😢
Seve was good but is overrated, Phil Mickelson is a better player than Seve ever was
It's about what Seve did for golf, particularly in Europe. Mickelson is finishing his career working *against* the best interests of the game, sadly.
Here's what kind of guy Seve really was. According to Seve's caddie Billy Foster in the final round of the 1991 World Match Play in Wentworth, Seve choked and coughed loudly on a piece of fruitcake as NIck Price was hitting his second shot into the green. Nick pulled it into the left front bunker and hit it out to within 10 feet. Seve's caddie suggested to Seve that he should give the putt due to his distraction of Price while he was hitting his second shot. Seve would have nothing of it. Nick ended up making the putt, but if it would not have been for Seve's coughing, Nick might have hit it close to the pin on his approach shot and made birdie. This is unquestionably poor sportsmanship on Seve's part. Shows what kind of a player he REALLY was.
SIR NICK FOLDO WOULD NOT BE QUALIFIED TO CARRY SEVE BALLESTEROS,S GOLF CLUBS, THAT IS MY HUMBLE OPINION.
Nick Faldo was not in Seve's Class , Faldo was a boring player to watch whereas Seve was exciting to watch , his bunker play and putting and short game amazing , didn't like Faldo at all .
I saw him at the Houston Open in 1977 struggling to make the cut. He hit a shot on the par 3 16th on Friday and it plugged in the face if the bunker- fried egg lie is what they call it and I said to my friend he is done now- not chance he gets this up and down. Het got up to the shot like he had practiced it a 1000 times, he hooded a pitching wedge, took about a 3.4 full swing and and hit about 5 inches behind the ball- no follow through- just left the PW stuck in the sand- the ball rolled about 5 feet from the cup and he made the putt.
This was pre cable TV, pre everything- greatest shot I had seen up to that time. He was a magician around the greens and the bunkers- that was just a precursor as to what the golfing world would see in the coming years.